Honigman lawyers have been an integral part of The Taubman Company's business since its inception. We deeply value the intensity, skill and experience that they bring to our business operations. 

Bill Taubman, Chief Operating Officer, The Taubman Company LLC

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Honigman is a leading law firm serving local and national real estate clients with respect to real estate transactions throughout the U.S. and internationally. Ranked Band 1 in Michigan by Chambers USA since 2003, our real estate practice is known for our value, sophistication, responsiveness, and unparalleled advice, as well as our legal and business acumen and industry relationships. Since 1948, we have been at the forefront of real estate handling high-profile transactions and helping to shape and develop all sectors and asset classes. We have helped to transform skylines, communities, and economies locally and nationally.

Our Real Estate attorneys handle the full spectrum of real estate matters. We negotiate development agreements and approvals, construction documents, financing arrangements, purchase and sale agreements, and leases for hundreds of millions of square feet of commercial real estate. Our experience includes development, acquisition, disposition, financing, and leasing of some of the country’s most vibrant downtown projects, most luxurious shopping centers, and most successful hotels and mixed-use projects. Additionally, we represent numerous clients in connection with office, industrial, manufactured and multifamily home, and self-storage projects across the U.S.

Our clients recognize us for our ability to handle their most complex matters with the most up-to-date technology and to operate under the most accelerated time frames with unmatched efficiency and attention to detail.

• Represented Bedrock Real Estate Services and its affiliates in the acquisition of properties containing office space in downtown Detroit
• Represented Rock Ohio Caesars in the development of casinos in Cleveland and Cincinnati
• Represented The Taubman Company in the development of more than 30 shopping centers nationally, including in Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, New York, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, Texas, Utah, and Virginia
• Provided legal counsel to Pebblebrook Hotel Trust in real estate acquisitions, including the purchase of five "upper upscale" hotels (the Sofitel in Philadelphia, PA; the Skamania Lodge in Stevenson, WA; the Sheraton Delfina in Santa Monica, CA; the W Boston in Boston, MA; and the Viceroy in Miami, FL)
• Advised Ramco-Gershenson Properties, L.P., in connection with its formation and the acquisition, management, leasing, and financing of its entire portfolio of properties, as well as in financing of the company
• Represented Churchill Stateside Group, the nation’s largest provider of debt and equity financing for multifamily projects, in structuring debt financing with FHA, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, solar loans, tax credit syndications, and public employee pension funds as private placements, including General Retirement System for the City of Detroit, Police and Fireman Retirement System for the City of Detroit, and Wayne County Employees’ Retirement System
• Provided legal counsel to Carmeuse Lime and Stone in connection with quieting title and consolidating mineral interests owned in fee and several mineral interests involving multiple parcels
• Represented Evergreen Partners in the acquisition of an affordable housing development in Georgia that contains 200 units and the preservation of such development as affordable housing
• Represented The Wishcamper Companies, Inc. in connection with the acquisition of existing affordable housing developments in South Carolina and Connecticut containing approximately 300 units and the preservation of such developments as affordable housing
• Represented Village Green with respect to the development, acquisition, financing, and recapitalization of over 40 apartment communities representing over 50,000 (Randolph Tower, MDA and Fisher Building City Apartments in Chicago, Mill District, Lake Calhoun, Eitel Building and Soo Line City Apartments in Minneapolis, Millender Center and Detroit City Apartments in Detroit, and Village Green of Ann Arbor and Ann Arbor City Apartments)
• Advised the New York State Common Retirement Fund in forming a joint venture with Simpson Housing Fund LLP for the acquisition of more than $600 million in assets, including initial closing valued at $220 million
• Represented Team Schostak Family Restaurants in connection with the acquisition and equity and debt financing of 65 Applebee’s Restaurants in Michigan
• Represented Atlas Holdings LLC in acquiring a steam facility from Detroit Thermal including incentives and tax exempt financing
• Represented the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago in the development of its Detroit Headquarters facility
• Counseled Compuware Corporation in connection with its $350 million headquarters facility completed in downtown Detroit’s Campus Martius
• Counseled General Motors Company with regard to its non-dealership real estate transactions nationally
• Advised General Motors Company in connection with its global headquarters project in the City of Detroit, including acquisition of Renaissance Center Phase I, the River East property adjacent to the Renaissance Center, the Millender Center and Renaissance Center Phase II
• Advised Northwest Airlines in connection with the construction of the $1.5 billion Midfield Terminal and related improvements at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport
• Counseled Borealis Transportation Infrastructure Trust, a subsidiary of the Ontario Municipal Employee Retirement System, in a complex transaction to acquire 50 percent interest in the Detroit River Tunnel Partnership 

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